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Epps leads national corrections group

Mississippi's corrections chief Christopher Epps has begun a two-year term as president of the American Correctional Association.

Epps was sworn in this past week at the ACA Winter Conference in Houston, Texas. The association has more than 20,000 members from 60 countries.

Epps plans to focus his tenure as president on health care issues, more rehabilitation, less administrative segregation and more re-entry programs, according to a news release. Administrative segregation refers to taking inmates considered a security threat into solitary confinement.

Epps is in his 11th year as Mississippi's corrections commissioner and is the longest serving commissioner in the Department of Corrections' history.

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